December 2011
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We're now on Google+
Happy holidays down to Earth everyone!
We were already on facebook, on twitter, on youtube, on storify, and we’re now on…
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Climate Change Infographic: 'Frozen Carbon' →
plantedcity:
From the New York Times:
Perennially frozen ground, known as permafrost, underlies nearly a quarter of the Northern Hemisphere and stores a huge amount of carbon.
ANCIENT PLANTS removed carbon from the atmosphere by absorbing carbon dioxide. When the plants died, much of their stored carbon was trapped and frozen in layers of soil and glacial silt.
OVER THOUSANDS OF YEARS the...
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The year in Social Innovation: seven key trends →
Reblogged from GOOD.
Trend n°3: Social Enterprise Boosted Developing Economies In 2011, we saw social enterprise help clear the path to economic development in emerging markets. In Africa, social entrepreneurs helped tackle the problem of waste (allowing us to run an a story about “fecal sludge”), created jobs to spread important health tools and fight poverty, and even developed innovative...
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Will there be a war over water?
Perhaps not if we invent jumpsuits that recycle our urine, as Frank Herbert did in his science fiction novel Dune, or if we move icebergs from the poles to the coastlines of the Mediterranean. Technological, economic and geopolitical solutions are being implemented to deal with the increased scarcity and degradation of the resource, but water governance is still in its early stages. Is water...
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How to upgrade India's social enterprise ecosystem
Reblogged from Good.is :
India has become a hotbed of social enterprise, home to impact technology like D.Light Design’s low-cost LED lights for rural communities, Sarvajal’s water ATMs, and Aravind Eye Hospital’s high-quality, high-volume, low-cost health care.
India is an obvious staging ground for social innovation—it’s home to bright young minds, serious development issues,...
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La guerre de l’eau aura-t-elle lieu ?
Peut-être pas si l’on invente, comme dans Dune, le roman de science-fiction de Frank Herbert, des combinaisons qui recyclent notre urine ou si l’on déplace des icebergs depuis les pôles vers les côtes méditerranéennes. Face à la raréfaction et à la dégradation de la ressource, des solutions technologiques, économiques et géopolitiques sont alignées, mais la gouvernance de l’eau est encore...
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Le portrait de Marion Fiorentino, chargée de...
Marion est chargée de projet sur Lemateki, un projet social business, lancé à Dakar au Sénégal, par danone .communities et ses partenaires. Ce projet vise à mettre de manière pérenne à disposition des enfants défavorisés un produit fortifié nutritionnel à base de céréales locales.
Marion a rejoint le projet Lemateki en septembre 2009, pour mener une étude nutritionnelle sur les enfants des...
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Four questions to Manoj Kumar, CEO of Naandi...
Naandi which in Sanskrit (Indian tongue) means a new beginning; is one of the largest and fastest growing social sector organisations in India working in three sectors: Child rights, safe drinking water and sustainable livelihoods. Livelihoods Fund decided to carry out an extensive program of reforestation (Planting fruit trees) with Naandi foundation. Last year 700 ha has been planted,...
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Newsletter down to Earth #4
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UN launches global conversation on sustainable...
“Sustainable development is a top priority for a simple reason – it cuts across all the challenges and priorities,” Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told a press briefing this morning. “We know that what we face – food insecurity, water scarcity, energy shortages, climate change, increasing carbon emissions and unhealthy oceans – all these are the priority challenges which we have to address. ”
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Interview of Cecile Renouard, a researcher...
“I coordinate the “Companies and Development in Emerging Countries” research programme at ESSEC’s Iréné Institute. The aim of the programme is to study the contributions of companies to the development of the areas in which they are located, and in particular to develop the measurement of impacts. I work on the Pemulung project with Anda Djoehana (who specialises in...